Adapted Fitness

What is Adapted Physical Education?

Adapted Physical Education: is an individualized program including physical and motor fitness, fundamental motor skills and patterns, skills in aquatics and dance, and individual group games and sports designed to meet the unique needs of individuals.

Adapted physical education is usually designed to meet the long terms needs for unique individuals with disabilities.

Adapted physical education should emphasize an active program of physical activity opposed to a sedentary alternative program.

Adapted Physical Education and Sport 5th Edition

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

The nations special education law (IDEA), the list of disabilities include but are not limited to:

Autism: a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

Deaf-Blindness: simultaneous hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs

Deafness: hearing impairment so severe that a child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification.

Developmental Delay: delay in one or more of the following areas: physical development; cognitive development; communication; social or emotional development; or adaptive [behavioral] development.